There’s nothing like practising knife skills to keep little hands busy in the kitchen and this week, the Petits Chefs got to practice (and show off!) theirs as they prepared Rainbow Rice Paper Rolls from Cameron Stauch’s beautiful new book, Vegetarian Viet Nam (full review and giveaway coming to the blog on the weekend!). This […]
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Les Petits Chefs make Caramelized Plum Tart from Tasting Paris
Les Petits Chefs are back for term 3! We have a wonderful programme of visiting chefs and field trips lined up this term and I can’t wait to share what we get up to! The first week of any term in club is always a bit unknown for me because team tryouts are still taking […]
Les Petits Chefs make Breakfast Fruit Pastries from The Redpath Canadian Bake Book
This week, for the final week of “cooking the books” with the Petits Chefs for the term, I decided to make a sweet treat from The Redpath Canadian Bake Book, which I wrote about last year when it came out: Redpath Sugar has been a staple in kitchens across Canada for more than 160 years […]
Les Petits Chefs make Earl’s Restaurant Tortilla Soup from The Soup Sisters Family Cookbook
For this week’s edition of Cook the Books, Les Petits Chefs worked from The Soup Sisters Family Cookbook. I wrote about The Soup Sisters Family Cookbook late last year: This is the third cookbook in the bestselling Soup Sisters cookbook series, and contains over 100 family-friendly recipes to make and share with kids of all […]
Les Petits Chefs make Orecchiette Pasta with Swiss Chard and Burrata from Bringing it Home!
For this week’s session of “Cooking the Books” Les Petits Chefs worked with a recipe from Gail Simmons’ latest cookbook Bringing it Home: Favorite Recipes from a Life of Adventurous Eating. Last year, I reviewed “Bringing it Home”, and I called it “smart and funny”. Here’s what I had to say: In recent years as […]
Les Petits Chefs make Polish gnocchi from Wild Honey and Rye
See that ^^^ up there? Kids making gnocchi. Magical, right? This week Les Petits Chefs worked with a recipe from Ren Behan’s Wild Honey and Rye (which I reviewed here). I’ve been bookmarking recipes to try once I have a bit more free time on my hands but as soon as I saw the recipe […]
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